Equifax hackers access details of 143m US consumersRaid on credit reporting agency lasts two and a half months© PA September 7, 2017 11:35 pm by Ben McLannahan in New York and Chloe Cornish in San FranciscoEquifax, the credit-reporting agency, has disclosed a massive breach of its cyber defences, saying that the personal records of 143m US consumers could have been compromised during a raid that went on for two and half months.Shares in the New York-listed company fell as much as 13 per cent in after-hours trading, after it admitted that hackers accessed names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, addresses and driving licence numbers.In addition, the company said, intruders accessed files containing credit card numbers for roughly 209,000 US consumers, along with “certain dispute documents with personal identifying information” for about 182,000 more.

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